Commit Graph

95 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Andrew Tridgell 6eaad59115 Plane: improve vectored tailsitter takeoff
this gives extra pitch input when taking off a vectored tailsitter,
allowing the motors to point straight up for easy takeoff

thanks to Leonard for the idea!
2017-05-07 09:10:44 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell b1f1ace736 Plane: support vectored yaw tiltrotors
this adds support for tiltrotors which control yaw by vectoring the
forward motors. This avoids the need for the rear motor on a
tilt-tricopter to have a tilt servo
2017-04-24 16:54:41 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 2d9c3e3d93 Plane: added EKF yaw reset handling to quadplane
this follows the implementation from copter. Thanks to Leonard for the
suggestion
2017-04-24 16:52:16 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 88e02c7b35 Plane: log the throttle mix for quadplane copter control 2017-04-19 09:08:43 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 642a6acfcb Plane: support thrust vectoring in tailsitters
adds Q_TAILSIT_VHGAIN and Q_TAILSIT_VFGAIN, allowing for thust
vectoring in both fixed wing and hover
2017-04-11 17:34:40 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 664e41cec6 Plane: bring in demanded climb rate over 1 second
when we engage the Z controller in quadplane we bring in the climb
rate slowly to prevent a sudden change in motor demand
2017-04-09 16:45:19 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 36d8f730e1 Plane: setup better defaults for tailsitters 2017-04-04 10:15:08 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 5d06e4238f Plane: make the quadplane motors var_info dynamic
this will allow for more quadplane motors class types
2017-03-25 16:22:10 +11:00
Andrew Tridgell e3a8d477f5 Plane: improve tiltrotor transition strategy
avoid running forward motors at high throttle when transitioning to a
VTOL mode
2017-03-14 14:42:20 +11:00
Andrew Tridgell 3f7e7d456f Plane: in fixed wing mode slave quadplane attitude rate controller
For quadplanes this uses the attitude controller from fixed wing
when using the multicopter controller to assist fixed wing
flight. This prevents a rate mismatch between the two controller
leading to oscillation
2017-03-14 14:42:20 +11:00
Andrew Tridgell 2db8589f49 Plane: smarter Z controller initialisation for quadplanes
this is more generic than the previous one used only for the full
position controller
2017-03-14 14:42:20 +11:00
Andrew Tridgell c061d5615b Plane: added manual input mask for tailsitter prop-hang
This adds new parameters Q_TAILSIT_MASK and Q_TAILSIT_MASKCH. These
parameters allow a user to use the tailsitter capabilities of a 3D
plane to teach themselves to prop-hang.

It works by allowing the user to setup a switch on their transmitter
to enable manual pass-thru of a set of the input channels to outputs
when in tailsitter hover. The user can then use that switch to allow
learning of hover control in a 3D plane one channel (or two channels)
at a time.
2017-02-26 09:20:13 +11:00
Andrew Tridgell 3bb25eb194 Plane: added Q_TAILSIT_INPUT
this allows the user to control tailsitters either in body frame (like
a plane) or in earth frame (like a multicopter). This is useful for
people wanting to learn to fly prop-hang on 3D planes
2017-02-26 09:20:13 +11:00
Andrew Tridgell ea5186340b Plane: added Q_TILT_RATE_UP and Q_TILT_RATE_DN as separate parameters
allow control of tilt rate separately for UP and DOWN

always allow at least 90 degrees/second for switching to MANUAL
2017-02-25 17:53:26 +11:00
Andrew Tridgell e8b11924f8 Plane: split out the tailsitter transition complete code
use both roll and pitch to trigger completion of transition. This
copes with situations where the plane has managed to get itself rolled
over far enough that it can't recover into hover
2017-02-18 17:26:43 +11:00
Andrew Tridgell c787f4c56f Plane: initial support for tailsitter transitions 2017-02-18 17:26:43 +11:00
Andrew Tridgell 83f3cee99e Plane: initial hooks for tailsitter support 2017-02-18 17:26:43 +11:00
Andrew Tridgell 5c820adad4 Plane: fixed tilt transition with binary tilt servo
once the tilt is fully fwd then force transition as done at any
airspeed
2017-01-25 19:01:15 +11:00
Andrew Tridgell 54bca768b8 Plane: added Q_TILT_TYPE for retract servo tiltrotors 2017-01-25 19:01:15 +11:00
Andrew Tridgell 2f100b0804 Plane: removed separate tricopter quadplane build
can all be done with one build now
2017-01-12 17:39:37 +11:00
Randy Mackay c6dec5c3f6 Plane: quad plane uses consolidated multicopter classes 2016-12-31 10:55:23 +09:00
Mathieu OTHACEHE 152edf7189 Global: remove mode line from headers
Using a global .dir-locals.el file is a better alternative than
reincluding the same emacs header in every file of the project.
2016-10-24 09:42:01 -02:00
Randy Mackay 574976a3b7 Plane: include AP_Proximity in quadplane 2016-10-13 20:21:07 +09:00
Andrew Tridgell 4e017bf5b3 Plane: fixed loiter mode when Q_GUIDED_MODE=1
This fixes the fixed wing behaviour of LOITER mode whne
Q_GUIDED_MODE=1.

Many thanks to the PertUAV team for finding and reporting this bug
2016-10-01 08:37:17 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 6d09897b19 Plane: fixed VTOL motor termination in AFS 2016-09-27 11:53:45 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell dac7f45326 Plane: fixed use of multicopter mix_max
we need a settable mix_max for some vehicles
2016-09-21 12:23:19 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 3d0516fd57 Plane: added Q_ASSIST_ANGLE
this automatically provides quadplane assistance if the angular error
is over the given value for 1 second while flying faster than
Q_ASSIST_SPEED
2016-08-30 08:35:18 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell b29b609bcc Plane: added AFS support for quadplanes 2016-08-16 12:56:12 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 76b6cbbda1 Plane: prevent motor startup on reboot in quadplanes
we need to prevent RC overrides within px4io from running
2016-08-16 12:53:34 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 63317e9430 Plane: added throttle suppression for quadplanes
this tries to prevent motor start when on ground. Motors instead go
into spin_when_armed state
2016-08-04 09:43:40 -07:00
Andrew Tridgell f65b46385c Plane: added engine cut on land final in quadplane 2016-07-25 15:46:17 +10:00
Randy Mackay 9201a57c83 QuadPlane: include AC_Avoidance, AC_Fence
This is required because of AC_WPNav's use of the new avoidance library to stop at the fence
2016-06-22 11:38:15 +09:00
Randy Mackay b456a38432 QuadPlane: remove throttle_mid
motor's hover throttle is automatically updated
2016-06-18 11:55:49 +09:00
Randy Mackay f2b0f09d6f QuadPlane: remove THR_MIN 2016-06-18 11:55:49 +09:00
Andrew Tridgell b1b73e2d99 Plane: improved quadplane landing detector
look for no vertical position change for 5s as well as low motors
2016-06-16 18:17:56 +10:00
Tom Pittenger 69f29b51d1 Plane: new param Q_VFWD_ALT to disable VFWD motor below this altitude. Also uses rangefinder 2016-06-10 17:48:31 +10:00
Tom Pittenger f83a6ca1ff Plane: fixed variable misspelling 2016-06-02 15:10:51 -07:00
Andrew Tridgell 978a89efa6 Plane: added new ESC calibration method 2016-06-02 18:10:37 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell ba3576f027 Plane: added tuning error reporting for quadplanes 2016-05-28 17:33:30 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 52ea443d65 Plane: added Q_THR_MIN 2016-05-11 05:55:26 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 6b358a5618 Plane: added Q_GUIDED_MODE parameter
this allows you to do hybrid VTOL and fixed wing guided mode
2016-05-11 05:55:25 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 3bd5b42c69 Plane: refactor quadplane land controller as general VTOL position controller 2016-05-11 05:55:25 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 6fdaaa7d98 Plane: new tilt compensation method 2016-05-11 05:55:25 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 46bf2b83f5 Plane: use equal thrust in tiltrotors when over Q_TILT_MAX 2016-05-11 05:55:24 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell bbb5f68bb7 Plane: added initial support for tiltrotors and tiltwings 2016-05-11 05:55:23 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 89a2a92885 Plane: support better build time selection of multicopter frame type
makes it possible to do "make sitl-tri"
2016-05-11 05:55:22 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell db5f50e08e Plane: convert tuning to use AP_Tuning library 2016-05-07 18:34:15 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 0fd044c1f7 Plane: added Q_RTL_MODE parameter
used to switch to VTOL landing on RTL
2016-04-30 14:34:47 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 66d3668ac4 Plane: rapid climb in QRTL if below target altitude 2016-04-30 14:34:47 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 4666b25258 Plane: initial implementation of QRTL for quadplane RTL 2016-04-30 14:34:47 +10:00